[Android Apps and Games] purplekush:
Yes Please! ...and how about all the other free songs on Google Play Music?

I second this inquery and move to inform of possible solutions for google music free song of the day/free song collection/antenna free song , anyone?

free song of the day is listed on the main page:

https://play.google.com/store/music?hl=en

it is down a little bit after the 'best deals' section. On the free song of the day is a link for 'more free music':

https://play.google.com/store/music...theme_2011_10_29?feature=free-song-of-the-day

Their free song of the day, I guess actually came from blog Magnifier:

http://magnifier.blogspot.com/

which hosted features for people to find/discover new music, and of course a free song of the day.

apparently the blog not only had a free song of the day, but had a segment called "Antenna" with free samplers, which seemed to be monthly 'editor picks', would be a good way to describe what it was before.... usually of a new release OR an independent / lesser known band complete with reviews....

http://magnifier.blogspot.com/search/label/Antenna

Antenna, as with the 'song of the day' also merged into google play music, and is now stating "ANTENNA SAMPLER: Google Play's monthly free sampler is back with more new hip-hop, indie, electronic, country and Latin pop." which seems to be a selection of several artists, ~10 tracks, with an opening few paragraphs talking about that month's selection... it is found (took me a while) at the bottom of the main store page, on the left below the graphic that says "Free Music" (not the same link... which is misleading), the link is the actual text that says "ANTENNA": https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_antenna_2010140_ant_antenna_march

it looks like it is actually a 'collection' which there are other collections to the right of "free music".

The original Magnifier blog also had "Scanner", which provided free samples of different GENRES of music:

http://magnifier.blogspot.com/search/label/Scanner

In the Google Music store, I am not sure where to find this at all - however I do believe it is the same as when you first create an account (or maybe it was when first logging in, or downloading the 'music manager' desktop program) and it offered to add free music based on the genres you selected..... IF anyone knows where to find the free music GENRE sections within Google Play Music, please let me know!!

Also, The original Magnifier blog contained video interviews with various artists... new releases, new artists, up and coming, independent, etc... However, the video features usually contained a selection of free songs as well:

http://magnifier.blogspot.com/search/label/Video Feature

The link to the google play store works:

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_videofeature_20100c2_vid_dr_dog

However, I cannot figure out where this 'video features' section is and how to get to them from the Google Play site... again, if you know - please let me know :confused:

And last, there was a 'free songs archive', a banner on the side of the page... I believe this is the same as the ''more free music" link on the song of the day:

https://play.google.com/store/music...011_10_29?feature=free-song-of-the-day#?t=W10.

free songs url from the magnifier banner link:

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_theme_2011_10_29

However, it does not provide the entire 'archive' to view but it seems to change once a week?? I'm not sure....

SOOOOO There are SEVERAL placed to get free music from Google Play Music store.... some of them I can't even find anymore, and don't know exactly how they name the 'collections' as it isn't a generic link, but changes with each new weekly/monthly 'free samplers'....

For example:

Searching "google play music magnifier" came up with this result, an old video feature:

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_videofeature_2011_10_26?hl=en

Searching "google play music antenna" came up with several different old antenna collections:

most recent -

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_antenna_2010140_ant_antenna_march

older results -

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_antenna_2012_01_12?hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/music...iew_antenna_2010019_ant_antenna_october?hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/music...ew_antenna_20100d5_ant_antenna_december?hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_antenna_2012_01_11

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_antenna_20100fb_ant_jan_antenna?hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_antenna_2010121_ant_feb_antenna?hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_antenna_2012_01_13?hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_antenna_2012_01_13?hl=en

These seem more like the original blog's "Antenna" in that it is about a single album by an artist, with a paragraph of info about the artist/band:

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_antenna_2011_10_27?hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/series_overview_antenna_2012_01_10?hl=en

Either these (a specific artist on Antenna) or the "Video Features" with free songs to download -I think- are related to all the albums titled:

"(Artist Name): Live at Google" by (Artist) or simply "Live @ Google" by (Artist)

Which so far seem to all be free... Also, all the album 'cover art' for these albums also have a similar grey bar that says "Live@Google" as if it is the album name, regardless of which of the two album titles above is used.

Other than being able to make out the year (2012) and dates on some of these links, and then not using the year anymore on newer ones but a 2010xx link of some sort, I can't seem to make sense of how to check regularly other than going through the google music play store and hoping the Antenna section is there and hoping I can find out where to find the Video Features section...

Of course all the links have "/music/collections/series_overview_".... in the url, however I have seen nothing to indicate searching collections or finding links to 'series'.... Again, if you know something I've missed - please let me know!!!

Hopefully there is a program / app or something that can inform (or possibly automate the 'add'?), for at least the free song of the day? As that seems to be one of the many sources of free music on Google Play Music that would be easy to locate and has a 'feature=free song of the day' URL that likely(?) stays the same...

thanks for any help guys! :fingers-crossed:

-Ben